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[cows]

jaybird, you never mentioned what section you found Gullivers Travels in

Care to enlighten us?

[flossj]

It appears my first line was from Alice in Wonderland, but it was misquoted to say 'me' instead of 'her'.

my last line was from Wind in the Willows, but again, slightly misquoted.

No wonder I didn't find them when I did a normal google search!!

[Barefoot Andy]

Hmmm, sorry I can't help with the finding books, (although let me know if there's something in Birmingham expected and I'll see what I can do).

But keeping an eye of the Fforum, it appears that Niebla, who has the same odd writing style as the Fffake is after endings

[notgordian]

Going back to Niebla (and I know I'm rehashing a theory I mentioned before) I think his Six Degrees from Francis Bacon post pins him not only as the ffake Ffforde but also as Conrad Margetts, the Baconian activist recently released from 20 years of enloopment in Swindon. Oh, and the Niebla book shows up in the second classic literature quiz.

Amy's latest blog post asks for theories, so I sent in the idea earlier today. We'll see what comes of it.

Oh, and regarding the location for the Swindon event on the 7th--I think the fake Ffforde will instruct people who expressed interest in attending through the Scribbler entries on the super secret special location (since he is apparently the mastermind behind that particular activity)

[Mikeyj]

OT - but I can't believe that Scott's not posted yet - the fF's would be right up his street

Brother contacted - now it's badgering him to go time If anyone has never been to St. Ives that would be a wonderful one to do. It's a beautiful place. Redruth, not quite so beautiful. Where are the Cornish ARGers?!

[cows]

I count as a Cornish ARGer, however i've been busy over the last few days and I must have missed something somewhere - when did any of the books end up this far down the country???

Cows

[myf]

June Haversham posted a list of places known to have these blasted things on her blog the other day. Mostly Waterstone's with a few other bookshops chucked in, and several libraries (though I didn't find owt at Wokingham Library yesterday). Just going off to Reading now.

[Jaybird]

heh, Gulliver was just in Classics, forgot to mention, i'm a bit rushed at the moment!

Uploading a few more pics to my Flickr, of the other page (I went back and photographed it properly today) They're a bit blurry, but for a bookshop it's a damn poorly lit place!

http://flickr.com/photos/9416224@N06/

That's my flickr, go nuts with it. It has the quotes of what the extra page says also.

[Sarah B]

If the Pride and Prejudice has a page of lines in, I'll be able to tell you if they're from the book or not. Otherwise, my knowledge of classics is woeful, I'm afriad.

I must enter the scribbler; I haven't gotten around to it yet. Been far too busy! I'll try and cobble something together tonight though. My opening line is from Gulliver's Travels: "What those people were doing I was unable to distinguish" and my closing line from Tristram Shandy: "Writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation".

Do you think we should boycott Niebla's posts on the fforum, or answer? I'm not sure we should be too obvious that we're onto him/her.

Oh, and I'm all set for a trip to Cheltenham tomorrow.

[Jaybird]

Okaaay, just got some free time (FINALLY!)

Checked on google, the the lines from the page in Gulliver are from the book, not any new book we may need to be searching for!

[myf]

Success!!

[Sarah B]

Well done myf!

I've put together an excel spreadsheet of where we're finding these books. There's so many locations that if there's a different book in each place we're looking for a lot more books than we thought we were!



Also, it seems so far that all (two, haha) of the books found outside Folyes were in the classics section. So maybe that'll help us in searching the other bookshops?

[Jaybird]

So Tristram Shandy's poem is Wind in The Willows again? We seem to not get a new poem except from the Foyles ones. Hmph.

[cows]

Thanks for the list Sarah,

I will have to attempt to make it to both Redruth and St Ives libraries in the next few days. Redruth shouldn't be a problem - however if anybody happens to live close to St Ives you are more than welcome to go there to look

Otherwise I can do that one too...

I'll see if I can round up some troops to get a more efficient search

Cows

[myf]

How about making it a Google spreadsheet (or something similar)? Then people can update it as they find stuff (I've taken my optimism pill for the day, it seems!).
I think it would be worth adding an additional column or two, so we can keep track of what book is referenced in the text in each one we find, and whether there's any other text in the books.

I was so pleased at finding this one within 5 minutes of getting in the shop! I looked through the general Fiction bit first, checking under the letter for each author's name, but didn't find anything. I remembered that other one being in Classics, so made that my next target, and there it was I suspect I might even have squeaked with delight when I found it

Now that I'm feeling more confident in my book-hunting skills, if I can I'll go back to Wokingham library early next week and have another look - probably concentrating on the Classics bit if there is one (that place has no logic to it at all)